Health Topic 2: Medical information, administration, marketing and sales

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For each of the following topics you are to find:
  • TWO recent (in the past 2 years) news items. Link to them, give a brief review under the What? So What? and Now What model?
  • TWO websites with relevant and updated information - provide link and paragraph of review
  • ONE embedded video
  • Add anything else that will help others understand the impact of IT on this area of healthALSO addlinks to other strands and make connection to other parts of the syllabus: (see ITGSOpedia for examples of how this is done)
    • Strand 1 - Social and Ethical Issues
    • Strand 2 - Areas of impact
    • Strand 3 - IT Systems


Medical advice(Chen)

Article:

http://www.medicalhomealert.com/683/ftc-advice-for-choosing-a-medical-alert-system-or-personal-emergency-response-system
Medical advice for public

E-prescriptions (Shawn)

Articles:
1. E-prescribing apps launch in android market
MTBC, a Unique Healthcare IT Company, has released MTBC iRx, the Android version of its e-prescribing application.
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2. E-prescribing may increase medication errors
The article is saying that redundant data due to the e-prescribing can cause errors that may harm people seriously.
The issue is the reliability of e-prescribing because redundancy of data causes more and more errors that can cause to treat patients wrongly.
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Telemedicine(Shawn)

Articles:
1. Telemedicine saves the United States $700 billions
-FCC National Broadband Plan announced that telemedicine will save the government $700 billions on healthcare over next 15 to 25 years.
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2. Telemedicine is already proven
-According to one of ATA (American Telemedicine Association), it has been already arrived and has been a new method of medical application.
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Electronic health records (Violet)

International health cards

Articals

1. 'Non-medical staff 'have access to health records'

In the UK non-medical staff have access to confidential patient rerecords. This is not good when the patiant records are sapose to be cofidetial unless the patiant permits it going to someone.
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